BRIEFLY : WORLD RECORDS CONTINUE TO FALL.Two more world records fell when Wilson Kipketer
Wilson Kipketer (born December 12, 1972) is a Danish former middle distance runner. He holds the current world records at both indoor and outdoor 800 and the indoor 1000 metre distances. , a Kenyan who competes for Denmark, lowered his own 800-meter mark, and Bernard Barmasai Bernard Barmasai (b. May 6, 1974 in Keiyo) is an athlete from Kenya. He specialised in steeplechase running but is nowadays a marathoner. He set the new 3000 metres steeplechase world record of 7:55.72 on August 24, 1997 in Cologne. of Kenya bettered the 3,000 steeplechase steeplechase Either of two distinct sporting events: (1) a horse race over a closed course with obstacles, including hedges and walls; or (2) a footrace of 3,000 m over hurdles and a water jump. mark Sunday at the Cologne Grand Prix Grand Prix n. pl. Grand Prix Any of several competitive international road races for sports cars of specific engine size over an exacting, usually risky course. in Germany. The records came two days after the 5,000 and 10,000 records were bettered in Brussels, Belgium, and less than two weeks after three records were set in Zurich, Switzerland. Both records set Sunday improved the marks set in Zurich. Kipketer finished the 800 in 1 minute, 41.11 seconds to lower his record by .13 seconds, after running 1:41.24 in Zurich. Barmasai surged past fellow Kenyan Moses Kiptanui to shatter the steeplechase mark by more than three seconds, clocking 7 minutes, 55.72 seconds. In other events, former Thousand Oaks High star Marion Jones won the women's 200 in 21.93 and Olympic champion Donovan Bailey of Canada surged ahead shortly after the start and powered past three American sprinters to win the men's 100 in 9.99. SWIMMING: Triple Olympic gold medalist Michelle Smith finished the European Swimming Championships with two gold and two silver medals, taking her second silver in the 200-meter butterfly behind 19-year-old Spaniard Maria Pelaez in Seville, Spain. LOCAL: A memorial service was held Friday for former North Hollywood High School North Hollywood High School, originally called Lankershim High School when it opened in 1927, is a secondary school in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The school mascot is the husky, and the school colors are blue, white, grey. and Occidental College basketball player Anson Credille, who drowned off the coast of Costa Rica on Aug. 16. The 22-year-old Credille graduated from Occidental in May and was in Costa Rica taking a class. He was a key player on the 1992-93 North Hollywood team that included current Stanford guard Arthur Lee. ``He was a special kid,'' North Hollywood coach Steve Miller said. UNIVERSITY GAMES: All-around champion Shannon Miller withdrew right before the vault with a hamstring injury hamstring injury Sports medicine A muscle injury of biceps femoris, seen in sprinters and runners, when a contracted muscle meets a lengthening force, overpowering intrinsic muscle resiliency Management RICE, NSAIDs, gradual ↑ of pain-free activity–eg, at the World University Games in Sicily, a U.S. team spokesman said. She did participate in the uneven bars, where the injury would not be as much of a factor, and finished fifth. It was an anticlimactic an·ti·cli·max n. 1. A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise: the anticlimax of a brilliant career. 2. end to the 20-year-old's University Games. After leading the U.S. to the team silver Friday, Miller recovered from a slip Saturday on the balance beam - in which she's the reigning Olympic champion - to edge teammate Kathleen Shrieves for the all-around gold. |
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